Tired of waking up to your clock radio? Well, you can use your Mac as an alarm clock, and have it play an iTunes playlist, so you wake up with the right music every day.
• Safely archive your large volume of vital email information. • Easily access your email database with fast, sophisticated searching. • Protect your essential email data from data format obsolescence.
With the new version of OS X (Leopard) Apple has included some great functionality in Time Machine. Your Mac will automatically backup to an external drive every hour. It includes the ability to recover deleted files in a timeline.
Many international users have keyboards with the U.S. layout, and are accustomed to typing accented characters with the key sequences of the Windows "U.S. - International" keyboard layout. They often don't wish to get used to the Mac's option-key sequence
HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X
I’m an application addict! When I recently switched to the Mac I went hunting around for the best applications to add to the base operating system. There were quite a few good sources of information, but I found one in particular very useful. Mac Specia
Battery Health Monitor is a free utility for PowerBook, iBook, MacBook, and MacBook Pro owners that monitors virtually all battery health parameters and displays them in an easy-to-read format
I needed to edit numerous files today on a remote linux box. Normally, I would ssh in and use vi. However, I had to edit ruby/rhtml files and I wanted a familiar environment (in this case, TextMate).